In this issue, our second, we venture widely in our quest to find great adventures. From an article written and sent from Princess Elisabeth Station in Antarctica we venture along the Omo River to meet Ethiopian tribes who are holding on to their authentic way-of-life in the face of commercialisation and tourism. In Mali we send an infidel disguised as a Tuareg to Timbuktu and a couch potato to climb Mount Fuji in Japan. Our writers have ventured to Burma to see at first hand a country in transformation, they wander the ancient Roman roads in Transylvania, venture up Mount Toubkal and taste wondrous epicurean delights in Morocco.